heredity
How to pronounce heredity:
Synonyms for heredity:
ancestry
birth
blood
bloodline
breeding
descent
extraction
family
family tree
genealogy
genetic endowment
house
lineage
organic process
origin
parentage
pedigree
race
relations
relatives
stock
strain
succession
Antonyms for heredity:
acquirement
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